söndag 19 januari 2014

Today I will take part in an interesting test.A small group of geneaologists on the US east coast with swedish heritage will have a meeting this afternoon.I will participate using Internet/hangout. I can verbally interact with the participants and also show/share my screen. This first trial has no specific agenda - more a of a test since it is a new for some of us. If it proves useful, it may develop into something more permanent.Any comments are welcome!"Alsterolle" - Olle Andersson-------------------------A follow-upThe test was quite successful even if the equipment used was not optimal.Ken Nelson used his laptop and my picture and screenshare was shown via a video projector.For the next venue, Ken will try to have a separate omnidirectional microphone and perhaps a webcamera on a stand. It is really not necessary for me to see the people attending and to transmit video takes a chunk of the bandwidth and CPU-use on the laptop.We may also test Skype to see if the screenshare works better.Addition: I did a test with my friend Tommy (on the island of Gotland) and found out that the Hangout with video ON takes a lot of CPU-power. My test shows a 90% CPU strain compared to 30% in Skype. I do not remember if this was the case in the first hangouts I did. Perhaps they have incorporated too many new functions in later versions !? So a laptop with 2GB CPU or less have to struggle and feels better with video OFF in a hangout.

fredag 10 januari 2014

Many like myself not just note the document reference but also save the document as an image from the book in question.

Here an example:
Östra Göinge häradsrätt FIIa:91 (1860-1861) Image 6840 / page 604 (AID: v158978.b6840.s604, NAD: SE/LLA/10083) - en estate inventory- first page.
A "full page" screen save with CTRL+S produces what you see on the screen - you can zoom in on a particular part - I choose to see the full page:

However by rotating the page in AD 90 degrees and zoom in I get a much better full page and it's easy to turn it back in a suitable program. There is a difference in quality!